Calculating the social: standards and the reconfiguration of governing
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230579316
Date de publication :
29 sept. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise.